Menneskerettigheder og bæredygtig udvikling, Amerika

In our work on sustainable development, we seek to drive human rights change through state development processes. We work with digital tools that add visibility to the human rights dimension of sustainable development, and we support partners in documenting and addressing human rights issues. We believe that comprehensive data on human rights issues is a sound basis for dialogue among actors that can bring about change.

We strive to fight discrimination and inequalities, and we see sustainable development processes as leverage for promoting human rights. Our main focus is on economic, social and cultural rights, and we promote equal treatment and non-discrimination. We work with marginalised groups such as indigenous peoples and poor fishing communities who depend on marine resources for their livelihoods, and we work with human rights-based land governance. It is becoming increasingly clear in the human rights community that the enjoyment of human rights for all cannot be achieved without a healthy environment, so we are building a stronger focus on environment and climate change in our work. Likewise, we are concerned about the unprecedented attacks against gender equality, and we will dedicate more resources to promoting gender justice the coming years.

We also work on the broader, transformative elements of the global sustainable development agenda and believe that human rights defenders play a crucial role in bringing about the change we need to build more just and sustainable societies. We work mainly with national human rights institutions but share our tools and approaches with a broad range of stakeholders, including state authorities, civil society, rights-holder groups, and development actors.